Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68d843366f902bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:05:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 65587b0a42ae345ab2d168c5adfb4f3a SHA-1: ce160b0964dcc79b89fff774052319e9dd9630d3 SHA-256: 68d843366f902bc8c5060eed8e896365f720fd78d379fb3594853094a67d420c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is classified as malicious due to its use of a redirector link, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=econometrics+for+dummies+pdf`, which is associated with malicious activity. The document also contains a large number of embedded links to other PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the overall assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=econometrics+for+dummies+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.myrawilliamsottewell.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408537/2dda0c4825021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.izzyzaino.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/2383743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mumsandtums.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/9451161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.familypracticemidwifery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437733/mujexufakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/kinesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/gidens_sociologija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2541/3782/files/61379958328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5036/8152/files/81263634730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1448/0287/files/centroide_y_centro_de_gravedad_estatica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6465/6026/files/spybot_search_and_destroy_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/45185528748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9241/0525/files/kojafetasapuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5145/0519/files/cmp_blood_test_results_explained.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/31894917349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5933/9674/files/kolowosagejubibomarojetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8212/files/10972110305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0469/3400/files/ap_environmental_science_frq_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: izzyzaino.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F1F 5016 bytes
SHA-256: 5c452e9e94a7c4249340d844ba7a90c0b37215ccb5a25d084cbc0a63f64a926f
font_01_sfnt_off0000700e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x700E 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 5f20091aef5098f66938053e434189e04c7419f35bb38f72b354256f21475a7c